The site is free to read. What is charged for is a machine reading the same answers through the API or MCP, and what separates the plans is what you may do with an answer — not only how many you take.

Free

Free

Enough to build against and decide. Not enough to run on.

May be usedTrying it out. Nothing that is sold, shown or traded on.
Answers1,000 a month
Rate1 answers a second
Keys1

Research

$49 / month

Reading the past, and testing whether it says anything.

May be usedInside your own work. Results stay with you and the people you work with.
Answers100,000 a month
Over that$0.60 per 1,000
Rate4 answers a second
Keys1

Production

$249 / month

Something that runs: a signal, a desk, a system that asks on a clock.

May be usedInside anything you operate. Still not shown to anyone outside it.
Answers600,000 a month
Over that$0.45 per 1,000
Rate10 answers a second
Keys5

Redistribute

By agreement

Our answers reaching people who are not you.

May be usedShowing an answer to a third party — which is what an agent does when it answers someone with one. Agreed case by case; write to us.
Answers600,000 a month
Rate10 answers a second
Keys5

What an answer is

Counted in answers; a reply drawing ten moments is one, fifty is five. A reply costs what it draws — the bars around each moment, its returns, where they sit against the usual — so the count follows the k or limit in your own query string, and you can work out what a call costs before you make it.

A call that runs past the allowance or the rate comes back 429 saying which of the two it was and what had been spent, not just that something was too much.

Display and non-display

A person reading a page here is display use, and it is free. A machine reading the same answers is not, and that is what these plans are for. It is the line the exchanges draw and the one the terms follow.

Showing our answers to someone who is not you — which is what an agent does when it answers a question with one — is redistribution, and it is agreed separately. Write to [email protected].

Before you pay

Terms, Refunds and Privacy. A key is free to take and costs nothing until you ask for one that is not: how to get one.